Ukraine’s Cultural Landscapes
Ukraine’s Cultural Landscapes
Ukraine’s Cultural Landscapes is an initiative at the intersection of culture, environment and urban planning. Our aim is to promote the importance of (cultural) landscapes in people’s lives with focus on healthy environment, heritage and responsible economic development. We work in several areas that are inextricably linked and the division between which is conditional – research (academic), formal and non-formal education and applied urban planning through the development of spatial development concepts for rural and urban areas and developing effective policies.
We consider the landscape in its broadest sense as a historical and socio-natural phenomenon that is the result of human interaction with nature, people among themselves and a phenomenon involved in complex cultural, social, economic and political processes. Landscapes are the framework for a comfortable build up areas, local identity support, the heritage rethinking, tourism development and responsible human-nature relations. Our values are respect for the environment, historical context and cultural diversity.
Roman Lozynskyi, Mykola Maidanskyi and Lubomyr Parkhuts
Roman Lozynskyi is a geographer-researcher with Master of Geography degree at the University of Southern Illinois at Edwardsville (USA, 2017) and Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (2009). Roman is lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University, Department of Cultural Studies.
Expertise: cultural landscape as a social phenomenon, changes in landscapes in the last decade of the Soviet Union and after 1991, the impact of land privatization and power relations on landscapes.
Email: rlozynskyi@ucu.edu.ua
Mykola Maidanskyi - ecologist, local historian, expert in developing of protected areas, historical and cultural. Mykola is engineer of the environmental research laboratory at Faculty of Geography, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
Lubomyr Parkhuts is a senior lecturer at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Urban Ecology of the National Forestry University of Ukraine in Lviv.
Email: lubom.pa@gmail.com
